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Apr 2023
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Fox News Lies - and Murdoch pays million...

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This is your midweek episode of Succession. Because Rupert Murdoch - aka Logan Roy - has shelled out nearly 800 million dollars to settle a defamation suit brought by Dominion - a company that makes voting machines.

Fox News had tried to claim the voting machines manipulated the result of the 2020 presidential election to make Trump lose. Which was clearly bollocks.

Late last night, Fox settled out of court - to make the trial of the century go away. Today we get inside the Murdoch mind with former Sun Newspaper editor David Yelland.

We also ask why food is getting ever more expensive with the latest inflation figures.

You can watch our episodes in full at https://global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/Videos

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